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Southern Rhodesian

British  

adjective

  1. of or relating to the former Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) or its inhabitants

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Southern Rhodesia

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But this appeal outraged even Todd's own Central African Party, which promptly ousted him from leadership, probably ending the political effectiveness of the one major Southern Rhodesian leader who advocates real racial partnership.

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The question of Southern Rhodesian secession will not arise.

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Four out of 20 seats on the legislative council went to the new Central African Party, headed by Garfield Todd, whose liberal racial views cost him the Southern Rhodesian premiership in 1958.

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He managed to ram through a bill giving Southern Rhodesian blacks their first tiny voice in the territory's government�a separate ballot under which they could elect five of the 35 members of parliament.

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During the last three weeks of 1963, 3,000 more of them poured across the Limpopo River through the Southern Rhodesian border township of Beitbridge.

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